"W. Wayne Liauh" wrote: > > I bought a CDRW last October and I couldn't get it to work under either > Win98 or Win2K. I downloaded the driver from the manufacturer. But it > still doesn't work. > > "Ironically," I have no problems with either Mandrake 8.2 or Red Hat > 7.3. And that was one of the main reasons that I decided to finally > move everything to Linux. > > I don't know why we have to stick to the "old" distributions like > Caldera 2.3 or Mandrake 8.0. I deeply believe that, since we do not do > the coding, one way of paying our dues to the open source community is > to test their software. > > Thanks to Warren's efforts in maintaining our local mirror, I was able > to d/l and install Mandrake 9.0 beta2 late last night in less than one > hour. And I saw very noticeable improvements in performance (especially > in web browsing). There are of course some kinks in MDK 9.0 beta 2, > mostly in system configuration, which Mandrake typically leaves it alone > until everything else (i.e., application programs) is in good shape. > > Of course it is too much to ask everyone to try a beta. But, from my > own experience, most Linux distros have improved drastically with each > upgrade version. > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau ########################
I'll be glad to try Mandrake 9.0 but I need the instructions as to how to download the floppy from the source either the Luau Mirror or the MAndrake site. Where do I find the floppy image to download? -- Aloha! Al Plant - Webmaster http://hawaiidakine.com Providing FAST DSL Service for $28.00 /mo. Member Small Business Hawaii. Running FreeBSD 4.5 UNIX & Caldera Linux 2.4 & RedHat 7.2 Support OPEN SOURCE in Business Computing. Phone 808-622-0043
